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Author:   Angela Reyes (Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Hunter College) ,  Adrienne Lo (Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9780195327366

ISBN 10:   0195327365
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   15 January 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Contributors 1.: Adrienne Lo and Angela Reyes: Introduction: On Yellow English and Other Perilous Terms Part I: Interactional Positionings of Selves and Identities 2.: Mary Bucholtz: Styles and Stereotypes: Loatin American Girls' Linguistic Negotiation of Identity 3.: Angela Reyes: Asian American Stereotypes as Circulating Resource 4.: Adrienne Lo: Evidentiality and Morality in a Korean Heritage Language School 5.: Jane H. Hill: On Using Semiotic Resources in a Racist World: A Commentary Part II: Discursive Constitutions of Groups and Communities 6.: Bonnie McElhinny, Valerie Damasco, Shirley Yeung, Angela F. De Ocampo, Monina Febria, Christianne Collantes, and Jason Salonga: ""Talk about Luck"": Coherence, Contingency, Character and Class in the Life Stories of Filipino Canadians in Toronto 7.: Wendy L. Klein: Turban Narratives: Discourses of Identification and Difference among Punjabi Sikh Families in Los Angeles 8.: M. Agnes Kang: Constructing Ethnic Identity through Discourse: Self-Categorization among Korean American Camp Counselors 9.: Asuka Suzuki: Who is ""Japanese"" in Hawai'i?: The Discursive Construction of Ethnic Identity 10.: Niko Besnier: Communities and Identities: Fraught Categories and Anchoring Resources: A Commentary Part III: Languages in Contact 11.: Emi Morita: Arbitrating Community Norms: The Use of English Me in Japanese Discourse 12.: Joseph Sung-Yul Park: Illegitimate Speakers of English: Negotiation of Linguistic Identity among Korean International Students 13.: Juyoung Song: Bilingual Creativity and Self-Negotiation: Korean American Children's Language Socialization into Korean Address Terms 14.: Alessandro Duranti and Jennifer F. Reynolds: Phonological and Cultural Innovations in the Speech of Samoans in Southern California 15.: Asif Agha: What Do Bilinguals Do?: A Commentary Part IV: Linguistic Practices in Media Contexts 16.: Elaine W. Chun: Ideologies of Legitimate Mockery: Margaret Cho's Revoicings of Mock Asian 17.: Roderick N. Labrador: ""We Can Laugh at Ourselves"": Hawai'i Ethnic Humor, Local Identity and the Myth of Multiculturalism 18.: Shalini Shankar: Reel to Real: Desi Teens' Linguistic Engagements with Bollywood 19.: Susan Gal: Perspective and the Politics of Representation: A Commentary Part V: Educational Institutions and Language Acquisition 20.: Leanne Hinton: Trading Tongues: Loss of Heritage Languages in the United States 21.: Steven Talmy: Forever FOB?: Resisting and Reproducing the Other in High School ESL 22.: Agnes Weiyun He: Sequences, Scripts, and Subject Pronouns in the Construction of Chinese Heritage Identity 23.: Bonnie Urciuoli: The Emergence of Language Identity in Cultural Action: A Commentary Index"

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This volume is a valuable collection of scholarly work that moves linguistic anthropological and sociolinguistic approaches to Asian Pacific America beyond the stereotype of the inscrutable, closed off, and unapproachable Asian. This book is a significant move ""beyond"" the restrictive stereotype of ""Yellow English."" * The Journal of Language in Society, Volume 39-2010 *

This volume is a valuable collection of scholarly work that moves linguistic anthropological and sociolinguistic approaches to Asian Pacific America beyond the stereotype of the inscrutable, closed off, and unapproachable Asian. This book is a significant move beyond the restrictive stereotype of Yellow English. * The Journal of Language in Society, Volume 39-2010 *

This volume is a valuable collection of scholarly work that moves linguistic anthropological and sociolinguistic approaches to Asian Pacific America beyond the stereotype of the inscrutable, closed off, and unapproachable Asian. This book is a significant move beyond the restrictive stereotype of Yellow English. The Journal of Language in Society, Volume 39-2010

Author Information

Angele Reyes is Associate Professor of English, Hunter College. Adrienne Lo is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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